Colombia has one
time zone
A time zone is an area which observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial and social purposes. Time zones tend to follow the boundaries between countries and their subdivisions instead of strictly following longitude, because it ...
, Colombia Time (COT), which is located in the
UTC−05:00 zone, 5 hours behind
Coordinated Universal Time
Coordinated Universal Time or UTC is the primary time standard by which the world regulates clocks and time. It is within about one second of mean solar time (such as UT1) at 0° longitude (at the IERS Reference Meridian as the currently use ...
(UTC). Its standard time zone abbreviation is
COT.
[Worldtimezone.co]
Time zone names - Colombia Time
Retrieved April 24, 2010
Colombia does not observe
daylight saving time
Daylight saving time (DST), also referred to as daylight savings time or simply daylight time (United States, Canada, and Australia), and summer time (United Kingdom, European Union, and others), is the practice of advancing clocks (typicall ...
, but
used it during eleven months between May 1992 and April 1993.
IANA time zone database
In the
IANA time zone database
The tz database is a collaborative compilation of information about the world's time zones, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems. Paul Eggert is its current editor and maintainer, with the organizational backi ...
Colombia has the following time zone:
*America/Bogota (CO)
See also
*
daylight saving time in Colombia
From February 1992 until March 1993, Colombia suffered rolling blackouts of up to 10 hours a day due to a particularly strong El Niño season, which dried the reservoirs in hydroelectric plants in a country deriving 70% of its energy output from hy ...
References
External links
GMT: Greenwich Mean Time - World Time / Time in every Time Zone
{{Americas topic, Time in
Colombia